{"id":1919,"date":"2006-05-10T07:47:00","date_gmt":"2006-05-10T15:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/fontopinions"},"modified":"2017-01-17T17:29:32","modified_gmt":"2017-01-18T01:29:32","slug":"fontopinions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/fontopinions\/","title":{"rendered":"Font opinions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a designer, I get way too opinionated about fonts. I think most designers are that way. And there\u2019s certain fonts which I just despise. If there was one font I could eliminate from the face of the Earth, that font would be Microsoft\u2019s <em>Comic Sans<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the cartoonish font you see just about everywhere. On crappy inkjet-printed restaurant menus, running from the moisture in the window. On the flyers you find on your doorstep, advertising lawn services. It\u2019s the font that gives amateur desktop publishing a bad name.<\/p>\n<p>Turns out, this wasn\u2019t even really designed to be a standalone font. I\u2019ve been aware for some time that the blame for this font rested with Microsoft, but I\u2019d always thought it was created by a programmer. (It\u2019s that bad.) Turns out it was created by Vincent Connare, specifically for use with the atrocious <strong>Microsoft Bob<\/strong> software, and Mr. Connare has written up a brief <a href=\"http:\/\/connare.com\/comic.htm\">history of Comic Sans<\/a> which explains a lot.<\/p>\n<p>I found it interesting that the author blasts Apple for <em>Chalkboard<\/em>, a similar font developed years later. I feel that Apple basically corrected the problems with Comic Sans, and offered it to their users. Obviously there is a need for a cute, playful, comic strip style font, but why not make it a little more legible and fit for putting on paper?<\/p>\n<p>You be the judge.<\/p>\n<p>Mark Simonson also writes about my second least favorite font, in <a href=\"http:\/\/ms-studio.com\/articles.html\">The Scourge of Arial<\/a>. <em>Arial<\/em> is especially annoying to me because so many websites <strong>force<\/strong> you to view their site in this font. Google, for example. Countless other sites, as well. Unlike fonts commissioned specifically for online legibility, such as <em>Verdana<\/em> and <em>Georgia<\/em>, fonts which appear on most every computer on the Internet today, <em>Arial<\/em> was designed for all the wrong reasons, and we all suffer for it. The author summarizes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It has spread like a virus through the typographic landscape and illustrates the pervasiveness of Microsoft\u2019s influence in the world.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a designer, I get way too opinionated about fonts. I think most designers are that way. And there\u2019s certain fonts which I just despise. If there was one font I could eliminate from the face of the Earth, that font would be Microsoft\u2019s Comic Sans. It\u2019s the cartoonish font you see just about everywhere.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11915,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/washington-high-stairs.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/needmoredesigns.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}